'Another Happy Day' took home the Waldo Salt Screening Award from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'

Susan GerhardJanuary 30, 2011

The Sundance Film Festival announced its complete awards Saturday night, and winners included How to Die in Oregon (Grand Jury Prize, Documentary), which looks at life and death in the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, Like Crazy (Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic), about a long-distance relationship, Circumstance (Audience Award, Dramatic), which offers up sexual rebellion in Iran, Another Happy Day (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), which presents an emotional family drama. The complete list of awarded films follows.

Special Jury Prize, Dramatic: Felicity Jones for her role in Like Crazy

As announced on Tuesday, the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking was awarded to Brick Novax pt 1 and 2 (director and screenwriter Matt Piedmont). The International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking was given to Deeper Than Yesterday (director and screenwriter: Ariel Kleiman). In addition, the jury awarded Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking to: Choke (director and screenwriter Michelle Latimer); Diarchy (director and screenwriter: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino); The External World (director and screenwriter David O'Reilly); The Legend of Beaver Dam (director Jerome Sable, screenwriters Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion); Out of Reach (director and screenwriter Jakub Stozek); and Protoparticles (director and screenwriter Chema García Ibarra).

On Tuesday Sundance Institute and Mahindra announced the winners of the inaugural Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are: Bogdan Mustata, Wolf from Romania; Ernesto Contreras, I Dream in Another Language from Mexico; Seng Tat Liew, In What City Does It Live? from Malaysia; and Talya Lavie, Zero Motivation from Israel.

Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) on Thursday announced Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer, as the winner of the Sundance Institute/NHK Award honoring and supporting emerging filmmakers.

Another Earth, written and directed by Mike Cahill, is the recipient of this year's Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. The Prize, which carries a $20,000 cash award by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.